Dear Stepan Pavias:

You are a very intelligent teenager whose intelligence is occupied in overthinking and underliving life, which is very common. Overthinking is wasted intelligence.

We are human animals, driven by emotions. We are not robots driven by thoughts. So  no matter how fancy your thoughts, you will be stuck in life unless you get to know your heart aka your emotions.

Imagine an elevator that could be going up and down your body, but instead, it is stuck in your head where you reside, thinking and thinking. If you could get the elevator unstuck, you can go down to your heart and reside there for a while.

Our thinking is supposed to help us live, it is not supposed to be a substitute for living. And living cannot be done without access to our hearts.

“in school you are taught that lava is called magma when underground, but no one tells you how to manage life, how to get to know yourself”- got to get to know your heart.

Not that you are not emotional, of course you are emotional and sometimes you do live life, as in when you are “optimistic, passionate, confident, and so on”.

“But when things go down the hill”- don’t abandon your heart, taking the elevator to your head and getting stuck there, overthinking.

I was wondering regarding your scoliosis, it can be mild or severe, I am assuming your case is mild, so you are capable of running and running fast. What are your individual health problems related to your scoliosis?

anita